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Frederick County Delegation approves bill allowing credit-card payments at volunteer fire-hall bingo with $500 cap
Summary
The Frederick County Delegation voted to adopt a delegation bill to allow credit-card acceptance at local volunteer fire-hall bingo events, adding an amendment that caps credit-card transactions at $500 to make the measure more palatable in committee.
The Frederick County Delegation voted during a brief meeting to make a bill a Frederick County delegation proposal that would permit credit-card payments at volunteer fire-hall bingo events, with an amendment capping each transaction at $500.
The chair (unnamed in the transcript) introduced the measure as a way to help volunteer fire departments raise revenue, saying, “Long story short, they do bingo. And right now... you can't use... a credit card or a debit card, to participate in bingo night at a local fire hall, which is, kind of…
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